Outer glow effects won't render.

I applied an outer glow to my opjects in illustrator but it just won't display.
I'm woried that I've hit some kind of weird hotkey that turns raster effects off or something, but I dont even know where to start looking.
I've used glows in the past and its always a bit wonkey but now it just wont do anything.
I've been using spot colors, but have tried it without to no effect, and I run windows 8.
I want to apply it to the compound shape hammer time, I thought maybe it was not working because of the compound shape so I tried getting rid of my inside shapes, but its not really changing.
I did just notice that there is a weird haze around the top hammer time on this image, but ONLY if you turn your head and look at the monitor from a strange angle can you really see it. So it might just be that I screwed up my glow settings here.
I'm trying to get the glow to be very strong for about half an inch and the fade out.

There are tools in the system that help you do it.
But actually it would be better to use calibration hardware.
http://www.normankoren.com/makingfineprints1A.html

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jeffreys42057005 wrote:
I've created a layer in Elements 12 that contains some text. I'd like to add an outer glow effect.
This is what I am doing:
1. Select layer with text
2. Click FX button at bottom of screen
3. Click Styles tab
4. Select Outer Glow from drop down
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Any help would be appreciated!! Thanks!
Jeff
Jeff,.
You're almost there!
Try #4 Outer Glow>Simple. Apply.
Now on the text layer in the layers palette, there is an f on the right. Double click on the f
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